Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Texans suffered greatly under the
Hurricane Harvey’s aggressive landfall, with many people being left homeless,
stranded or left with no basic necessities, such as food and/or water.

To aid the victims was a woman who
brought a total of 400 hamburgers to the site and divided them to locals
isolated from the rest.

This, however, didn’t seem appealing to
the Red Cross, which decided to call the woman out on bringing the food there
in the first place, and what they did next represents a pure absurdity at its
best.

Lindsay Scott was able to bring 400
hamburgers to those affected by the heavy floods with a little help from a
pilot, who volunteered to help out.

Scott, a Texas-born, was appalled to
learn what the Red Cross had in store for her, saying their treatment was
hostile, to say the least.

‘I’m astonished at the behavior of the
Red Cross husband/wife team at the mid-county Jack Brooks airport yesterday.
Who together accosted me and took turns berating me because I was trying to
bring 400 warm hamburgers to our hungry evacuees, who according to them did not
need the food because they had “already had a sandwich.” Yes, they had
1sandwichh in 24 hours. They were desperate for a hot meal! The Red Cross
proceeded to try and load the warm, ready to eat burgers into an ice chest.

The pilot, who had donated his time,
fuel, money, plane and arranged the delivery of the burgers was horrified at
not being able to serve them (he actually came to volunteer as well). I confess I just stood there with my mouth
gaping open, fighting back tears while they told me that I did not know what I
was doing and they had not even seen me volunteering. This is not a
normal reaction for me but either exhaustion or pregnancy hormones got the best
of me because I simply couldn’t find the words to fight back…,’ she
said.

‘The Red Cross was not there at 6:30 am
when we got there to find we had no food to serve the 100s of evacuees who had
sat on a bus all night and some who had not eaten in 24 hours. They were not
there when the sun came up and they woke up hungry, angry, tired, scared, and
frustrated. They did not see them fighting over donuts that OUR friends and
family answered the call to bring at 7:00 am. They did not see the tears over
dehydrated babies while we worked to arrange the delivery of Pedialyte and
formula.

They showed up HOURS later…. when we
had already coordinated the delivery of food and supplies with our LOCAL
community members (who came out in droves) and The Sky Hope Network
through our wonderful State Representative Dade Phelan after just a single
phone call. And the reason they didn’t see me (sweating and
sunburned) is because I spent most of the day on the aviation side of the
airport on the tarmac coordinating the landing, unloading, and transport of supplies
the Sky Hope Network was flying in all day. (which was no easy feat
considering the insane, chaotic state of the Jerry Ware terminal).

I do not care they weren’t
there (I understand the vast, severe, damage that ranges from Corpus,
Rockport, Houston all the way to Louisiana). I do, however, care how they
treated the people of our community when they arrived!’ she continued. ‘These supplies/donations were made by OUR
LOCAL community members and the Sky Hope Network (not the Red Cross) and
the Red Cross wanted them all shipped to their warehouse for processing and
distribution. Apparently, they don’t do “local distribution.” Say what?! We
need these things here, locally, NOW. And while we refused to turn away anyone
who came on foot or by other means (evacuee or not) or any other church,
group, or organization asking for supplies…the Red Cross tried to prevent us
from sharing OUR donations (contributed by our community for our community
and surrounding areas). The kids that are barefoot, need shoes NOW, not two
weeks from now…and we had more than enough to share.’ ‘And the way, these two representatives of Red Cross treated local
people who were donating their time (many in the wake of having lost
everything of their own) and spending countless hours away from their kids and
families in the wake of such tragedy hurts my heart. I pray this is not
representative of the Red Cross organization as a whole.

People
who donate their money would be horrified. I’m thankful for our local
volunteers who continued to fight with them (when I could not) and saw
that the burgers and supplies were distributed to ALL those that needed them.
As OUR motto was, we turn no one away,’ she explained.

The
Red Cross was called out on numerous occasions about not doing enough or obstructing
what other were doing to help Texans during the crisis.

Also,
many reports suggested the Red Cross does not use all aid received during a
particular crisis but sets aside monetary funds, which go to the organization’s
personal benefit.

This
goes to show that we do, indeed, live a semi-crooked society, ran by liberals.
I wonder, doesn’t humanity strike them as necessary at times?

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